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Dakota Fanning Is All Grown Up!
[Dakota Fanning, Robin Wright Penn, Deborah Kampmeir, Cody Handord, Piper Laurie. Photos by JIMI CELESTE for Patrick McMullan]
Dakota Fanning is all grown up! And she is a better dresser than all of her older cast mates.
Hounddog has made it to the big screen and it’s NYC premiere was last night at the Village Theatres. You remember Hounddog, the movie that premeired at last years Sundance and caused a big debate regarding the “rape” scene that 14 year old Dakota Fanning acted in. This is the second time Robin Wright Penn has worked on a Deborah Kampmeier movie involving a rape; the first was the 2003 film Virgin. I haven’t seen a photo of Dakota in awhile, but this girl is well on her way to being a woman.
New York, I Love You. Coming To A Theatre Near You
New York, I Love You is an upcoming romance film set to be released in February 13, 2009. From the producers of Paris, je t’aime, it stars an ensemble cast, among them Orlando Bloom, Natalie Portman, Christina Ricci, Hayden Christensen, Shia LaBeouf, Irrfan Khan and Kevin Bacon. The film premiered at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival in September, 2008.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona Makes Us All More Self Aware
[Penelope Cruz in Vicky Cristina Barcelona]
I’ve always been intellectually drawn to the “expat” life, but have only tasted bits and pieces over the years. A cigar in the back corner of the Bamboo Bar in Bangkok, a not-quite-24-hour jaunt to London for a brief meeting in the English countryside, and living vicariously through friends overseas via facebook status updates and photo tags, has kept me occupied enough to stay rooted in New York for the time being. However, I couldn’t help but perk up as I watched Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson) explore Barcelona, and long for my own summer spent in search of Gaudi, rioja, and self-awareness.
Facebook: The Awful, Awful Movie
“Facebook: The Awful, Awful Movie will tell the story of how Mark Zuckerberg invented binary digits as a toddler and the web browser in his Harvard dorm in 2004, and how every single person in the world joined up by 2007 to play Scrabulous Wordscraper. The planned sequel, to be filmed simultaneously, tells how Facebook solves conflict in the Middle East, cures breast cancer and, in Soviet Russia, pokes you.”
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The Facebook Movie - Who Will Play Zuckerberg?
[Shia Labouef, Michael Cera, Jason Schwartzman, and our pick, Jason Biggs]
Everyone”s talking about Aaron Sorkin”s, (the man behind some of our favorite TV shows and movies like The West Wing, Sports Night, A Few Good Men) new project - a Facebook movie - and he used Facebook to do it! Which got us to thinking; who will play main character Mark Zuckerberg? Luckily, we are not the only ones thinking about it - Valleywag and CNET have weighed in with the most comprehensive lists (this from Paul Carr is the weirdest) - their favorites (and one of our own) are above.
Funny thing, we ran Zuckerberg”s photo through the facematching section of myheritage.com, and we got this:
Holly Screening At The Hearst Tower
[Adi Ezroni, publisher Susan Plagemann, model Petra Nemcova and editor-in-chief of Marie Claire Joanna Coles. Photo by Getty]
Go HERE for photos from the after party by Hayley Proudfoot
The Editor in Chief of Marie Claire Magazine, Joanna Coles, hosted an award ceremony, and a red carpet screening event for my favorite producers, Guy Jacobson and Adi Ezroni. They received the 2008 US State Department Anti Trafficking Heroes Award from the Ambassador Mark Lagon, the director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons in the State Department. After the ceremony, everyone continued on the the after party at Mansion, where they were able to raise more than ten thousand dollars for the campaign.
More photos and story below:
Pineapple Express Premiere Brings Out The Tokers
[Seth Rogan and James Franco at Pineapple Express Premiere]
Last night, I attended the Pineapple Express premiere at the Lowe’s theatre on 19th street. I had no idea what the movie was about, except that it was made by the “Superbad” guys and was about stoners. Perfect. Pineapple Express was exactly the kind of inappropriate bathroom humor that I hate to love. You didn’t have to be stoned during the first 30 or so minutes to sneak some laughs in (though I’m sure a decent percentage of the crowed was). However, as the movie turned from being a lighthearted comedy about two pot heads and their golden discovery, into an outlandishly silly action thriller, the buzz started to wear off (literally, I imagine for the tokers).
Jordan Galland’s Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Getting Us Excited
At 28, Jordan Galland has finished his first feature length movie, “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead” a vampire comedy involving Shakespeare and the Holy Grail, starring Jake Hoffman, Devon Aoki, Johnny Ventimilgia, Kris Lemche, Ralpha Macchio and Jeremy Sisto, with a cameo from Bijou Phillips. We are obviously behind in posting on this. However, a movie by the ever talented, native New Yorker Galland, with a soundtrack by Sean Lennon is worth mentioning, albeit late; and should be enough to get us all excited…
Stranger than Paradise
John Lurie, of Lounge Lizards fame, stars in this 1984 indie classic about trying to find paradise on this side of the Atlantic. Ex-Hungarians Willy and his cousin Eva lead lives on the fringe, searching for the American dream, and finding instead NY without the skyscrapers and Florida without the palm trees. Writer/director Jim Jarmusch shoots on black and white, and pulls off a lot of long, still shots that freeze these restless 20-somethings in great scenes that highlight their static lives. The only problem with the movie is that it ends too soon.
Bottle Shock Premiere Party At Savannah’s
[L.A. Reid, Eliza Dushka, Erica Reid at Bottle Shock Party in Southampton. Photos by Rob Rich]
From: hamptons.guestofaguest.com:
“Bottle shock” is a temporary condition of wine characterized by muted or disjointed fruit flavors. It often occurs immediately after bottling or when wines (usually fragile wines) are shaken in travel….It is also a film opening tomorrow about by Randall Miller, about a small California winery and the shock waves it set off in 1976 when it beat out the most exalted French wines in international competition (The Judgement of Paris).
The film stars Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman, Chris Pine, Rachael Taylor, Freddy Rodriguez, Eliza Dushku, and Dennis Farina.
Marie Claire Global Heroes Gala Afterparty
For those of you who have not already seen or heard about the movie Holly, we can’t encourage you enough to go see it. As we have written before, it offers a good look at the problem of child sexual exploitation, and the efforts of groups like Redlight Children to combat it. The filmmakers, Guy Jacobson and Adi Ezroni, (pictured above) have been invited to film festivals across the world, and received great reviews, as filmmakers and humanitarians. More »
The Joker’s Message Triumphed, And Other Batman Disappointments
Warning: This post may contain some spoilers, but then again it’s about Batman, as if there was anything to spoil. The caped crusader will obviously fight Joker with the help of character shields, as if you didn’t know that anyway.
I didn’t go to see the Dark Knight harboring illusions that it was going to be anything more than a pretty good rendition of the famed comic book hero protecting the streets of Gotham, unfortunately, it tried to be way more and came up way short as a result. Sometimes less is more….
